Author: Magdalene Henah

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pledged to safeguard the “daughters of Manipur” following the horrific gang rape of two Christian women by an alleged Hindu group.  

A chilling video circulating online shows the women, stripped of their dignity, being molested by a group of Hindu men before being forcefully led into a field where they were reportedly violated, as per The Times.  

The victims, one in her 20s and another in her 50s were seen imploring the mob for mercy amidst the escalating ethnic violence in the state. When the younger victim’s father and brother intervened, the mob beat them to death/.

Modi voiced his condemnation, “I assure the nation, no guilty will be spared. The law will take its course with all its might. What happened with the daughters of Manipur can never be forgiven.” He urged state government leaders to reinforce women’s safety and labeled the May 4 incident “a blemish on any civilized nation.”  

He expressed deep anguish and fury, stating, “My heart is filled with pain and anger.”  

This brutal incident has occurred amidst a backdrop of escalating tensions threatening to plunge the nation into civil war. According to reports, nearly 250 Christian churches, mostly Baptist, have been destroyed and burned down in the last 3 months.

Despite the storm of scandals and controversies swirling around the bruised and battered Hillsong Church in Australia and the Bethel Church in California, worship leaders are not shying away from incorporating songs from these two megachurches into their worship sessions. 

A recent study unveiled this week shows that worship leaders gravitate towards these songs not because they top the worship charts but because they have a personal connection with them, often discovered online, at conferences, or through friends’ recommendations. According to the study:

“The most influential factors in discovering a new worship song are peer endorsements and personal experiences. Worship leaders mainly trust their friends and fellow church leaders to provide them with song recommendations.”

The study draws on responses from over 400 worship leaders across the U.S. and Canada, seeking their insights on music production and their song selection process for worship. 

Demonstrating a woeful lack of discernment, a mere 16% of worship leaders admitted to being less inclined to choose a song associated with Hillsong. In comparison, 27% expressed a similar hesitancy towards songs linked to Bethel. 

On the other hand, a significant 62% confessed they were likely to pick songs from Hillsong, with a slightly lesser 48% saying they would likely opt for songs associated with Bethel. 

Three months ago, Worship Leader Research reported that four megachurches were responsible for producing and releasing nearly all the top worship songs released in the last decade, with Hillsong and Bethel being two of them. 

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Last week a judge decreed that the Proud Boy must pay a hefty $1.03 million to a historic Black church in Washington, D.C. The reason? In December 2020, amid a tumultuous protest surrounding the U.S. presidential election, Proud Boys members desecrated and incinerated a Black Lives Matter (BLM) banner from the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a revered landmark in the nation’s capital. 

In his ruling, Superior Court Judge Neal Kravitz cited the “emotional trauma” inflicted on the church members due to the incident. He put forth a firm edict, effectively barring the Proud Boys from venturing near Metropolitan AME for the next half-decade and sternly prohibiting them from uttering disparaging remarks or threats against the church and its leaders. 

Significantly, this ruling was a default judgment, given the conspicuous absence of the defendants in the courtroom.

Even though the cost to replace the flag totaled around $36,600, the judge emphasized that “compensatory damages alone will not address the defendants’ reprehensible conduct or the extraordinary emotional trauma suffered by the church and its congregants” and added on another million dollars, writing:

To the members of the church, the burning of the Black Lives Matter sign represented a complete negation of their right to worship as they please and, more fundamentally, to participate fully in the life of the community—and forced them to harken back to the long and painful history of white supremacists committing wanton acts of violence against Black churches.

In a shocking event last week, an elderly abortion provider from Michigan allegedly hit a pro-life advocate with his car outside a Saginaw abortion clinic, resulting in a broken leg for the victim. 

Pro-life sidewalk counselor, Mark Zimmerman, informed Live Action News about his severe tibia fracture, which has led to his current reliance on a wheelchair until he undergoes surgery. 

Zimmerman, who often joins other pro-life supporters in prayer outside the Women’s Center of Saginaw, claimed that the 88-year-old abortionist, Theodore Roummel, ran over him twice with his car on that fateful Friday. 

“I was standing in the driveway and the abortionist ran over my leg, and then he had to reverse to get off my leg, so he ran me over twice.”

A  GiveSendGo fundraiser set up for Zimmerman claim that several witnesses saw Roummel laugh at Zimmerman as he lay injured on the ground.  Zimmerman stated that despite four witnesses backing up his account, Roummel was not arrested. Instead, he continued with his day, performing five abortions. He shared with Live Action that while the police are investigating the incident, Roummel has yet to face any charges. 

“I went today to the police station in Saginaw Township, and was told they didn’t have the police report finished because it is still under investigation, If the roles were reversed I would have been taken away in handcuffs.”

Interestingly, this isn’t the first such incident involving Roummel. In 2012, he was charged with assault after Lynn Mills, director of Pro-Life Michigan, claimed he hit her with his car. Despite this traumatic event, Zimmerman remains undeterred, planning to return to the abortion clinic to continue his advocacy work.